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Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
might be a member of the family by birth or an employee of the house with no familial connection. You’ve earned your living by doing the business of the house, serving as the hands, feet, and eyes
of house leadership in the world. You might have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in the house you serve, plus allies or enemies in other houses.
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
. That Manshoon is dead, and the current Manshoon is one of the original’s many clones. Being a magical copy rather than an original doesn’t make Manshoon any less of a threat, as he’s
duplicate himself, his allies, and even his rivals. Manshoon knows that keeping people guessing about hidden identities makes them easier to manipulate.
Manshoon usually wears a mask and concealing
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
elusive, manipulative, unpredictable, and willing to cheat or kill comrades and rivals alike if doing so benefits them. The worshipers of Sseth have their hands in many schemes, often plying the middle
in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed. If it dies, it stays in its current form.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Awakening (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath
this level of power. But a chromatic dragon who can outwit all rivals and overcome all potential thieves can rise to become one of the mightiest of dragons.
Often a chromatic greatwyrm’s
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
circumstances of your birth, could have secured you this position.
You might have been one of the many functionaries, attendants, and other hangers-on in the Court of Silverymoon, or perhaps you
gain access to the records and inner workings of any noble court or government you encounter. You know who the movers and shakers are, whom to go to for the favors you seek, and what the current
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Awakening (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath
of power. But a chromatic dragon who can outwit all rivals and overcome all potential thieves can rise to become one of the mightiest of dragons.
Often a chromatic greatwyrm’s ascension involves
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Awakening (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath
level of power. But a chromatic dragon who can outwit all rivals and overcome all potential thieves can rise to become one of the mightiest of dragons.
Often a chromatic greatwyrm’s ascension
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested Characteristics
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
enclave. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and
you may encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you
may encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Awakening (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath
of power. But a chromatic dragon who can outwit all rivals and overcome all potential thieves can rise to become one of the mightiest of dragons.
Often a chromatic greatwyrm’s ascension involves
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Awakening (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath
of power. But a chromatic dragon who can outwit all rivals and overcome all potential thieves can rise to become one of the mightiest of dragons.
Often a chromatic greatwyrm’s ascension involves
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may encounter
one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested Characteristics
House
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested Characteristics
House
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
enclave. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and
you may encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested Characteristics
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
enclave. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house
, and you may encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
advisor in human society. The very rare offspring of such a union are always purebloods, although they may appear fully human at birth and for several years afterward.
The yuan-ti know rituals that
the blood, as it once did.
Because their population is so small, the yuan-ti are aware they are vulnerable in open warfare. Instead, their current plans assume they will never rule outwardly in
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
enclave. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and
you may encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you
may encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested Characteristics
House
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Siblings You might be an only child or one of many children. Your siblings could be cherished friends or hated rivals. Roll on the Number of Siblings table to determine how many brothers or sisters
you have. If you are a dwarf or an elf, subtract 2 from your roll. Then, roll on the Birth Order table for each sibling to determine that person’s age relative to yours (older, younger, or born at the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
. You might be a member of the family by birth or an employee of the house with no familial connection. You’ve earned your living by doing the business of the house, serving as the hands, feet, and eyes
of house leadership in the world. You might have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in the house you serve, plus allies or enemies in other houses.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
to usher a child into the world. They cannot understand how a birth is both a joy and a sorrow, a reunion and a parting. Each birth represents an elf soul that has been to Arvandor and returned
numbers of elves will be needed to withstand. In contrast, if an elven community goes a century or longer without a new birth, members take this as a sign that the community has stagnated and must disband
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
greatest cities of Galifar. While many of the dwarves of the Five Nations still speak the language of their ancestors, they feel a bond to the lands of their birth. A Brelish dwarf feels a deep, personal
to your relatives or have you had a falling out—or potentially lost your kin in the Last War? Likewise, consider what you did in the war and how that reflects on your current actions. Were you a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
family’s rivals, which were not thus gifted. The birth prompts the leaders of the house to begin crafting new plans to strike at its rivals when the draegloth is fully grown. These plans always use
of its mother’s house, lending its thirst for destruction to that house’s plans to triumph over its rivals. A draegloth is an ogre-sized, four-armed humanoid with purple-black skin and yellow-white
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Radiant Citadel
Court of Whispers The denizens of the Court of Whispers barter for current knowledge. Heralds, criers, bards, and griots buy and sell information from the fifteen founding civilizations active in the
identify crisis points where their operatives are needed. Even common citizens might hire folk from the Court to find missing loved ones, locate lost family treasures, or gather information on rivals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
identities are largely unknown. The public face of this ruling body is the Open Lord of Waterdeep. The current Open Lord, Laeral Silverhand, has held the position for only a few months, and many of the city’s
nobles and guildmasters are vying for her attention and conspiring to wrest power away from her office, while taking advantage of the transition to dispose of unwanted rivals. This kind of political
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Court of Whispers The denizens of the Court of Whispers barter for current knowledge. Heralds, criers, bards, and griots buy and sell information from the fifteen founding civilizations active in the
identify crisis points where their operatives are needed. Even common citizens might hire folk from the Court to find missing loved ones, locate lost family treasures, or gather information on rivals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
or their current lives can join the Carnival. As long as travelers are willing to work and contribute to the community, they’re welcome to stay as long as they like. CARNIVAL CHARACTERS
When players
create characters from the Carnival, consider asking them the following questions.
What sets you apart from your birth family? Do you have a unique talent or inborn ability? Do you display a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the observatory’s Death Ray to destroy her rivals in Hiatea’s Hearth (in this chapter). The current ruler of Hiatea’s Hearth has learned of the giant’s plan and implores the characters to thwart it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Creating a Rival In essence, a rival is a somewhat specialized NPC. You can use chapter 4 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to build a new NPC for this purpose, or pick one from your current cast of
supporting characters and embellish that NPC as described below. It’s possible for the characters to have two or three rivals at a time, each with a separate agenda. At least one should be a villain, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Connection to Strahd Once you know what form Tatyana’s current incarnation takes, consider how the character feels toward Barovia’s Darklord. If your version of Tatyana wants to stay away from Strahd
further their organization’s schemes.
10 The incarnation has drawn an enemy of Strahd’s to Barovia, such as Firan Zal’honen* or Jander Sunstar,* hoping the rivals will slay one another.